“Fight climate change by committing European real estate players to low-carbon building“
Sensations – Strasbourg (67) France – 9.300 sqm
Bouygues Immobilier – KOZ Architecture, ASP Architecture
Label BBCA Excellence – New Built
© Bouygues immobilier
The LCBI Initiative
The real estate industry accounts for more than a third of global CO2 emissions. To achieve carbon neutrality by 2050, all European countries need to reduce the carbon footprint of new, retrofitted and in-use buildings. Calculating carbon emissions at each stage of a building’s life cycle – construction, operations and end of life – is necessary to quantify the real carbon footprint of real estate.
The Low Carbon Building Initiative (LCBI), launched in 2022, unites major European real-estate stakeholders to promote low carbon buildings and reduce the CO2 emissions of European real estate by half (measured in a Life-Cycle Analysis). LCBI aims to create the first pan-European low carbon label measuring the carbon footprint of real estate based on a Life-Cycle Analysis.
Bureau Veritas,
preferred certifier
From Arnaud Regout
President of LCBI Advisory Committee, Chief Investment Officer BPI Real Estate (CFE Group)
President of LCBI Advisory Committee, Chief Investment Officer BPI Real Estate (CFE Group)
Association BBCA
The French association BBCA provides the technical support needed for the initiative.
Timetable
March 2022 : LCB Initiative is launched with nine major European real-estate stakeholders as sponsors
April 2022 : A scientific Committee is set up in order to conduct data analysis, benchmarks, expert reviews across Europe
March 2023 : LCBI Methodology is revealed
May 2023 (10th) : Open Webinar – LCBI Methodology
End of 2023 : The first version of LCBI label is expected (first focusing on new-built)
News and Calendar
Pioneers in low-carbon construction, the BBCA association and the LCBI initiative will be taking part in the Buildings and Climate Global Forum in Paris, organised by the UN
Pioneers in low-carbon construction, the BBCA association and the LCBI initiative will be taking part in the Buildings and Climate Global Forum in Paris, organised by the UN Read full press release March 6th, 2024 During two days of discussions aimed at speeding up the building industry decarbonisation, [...]
LCBI Launched the First Pan-European Methodology to Measure Building Carbon Footprint
LCBI Launched the First Pan-European Methodology to Measure Building Carbon Footprint The Low Carbon Building Initiative (LCBI) has launched the first pan-European methodology for whole life-cycle carbon measurement of buildings, with set limit values, aiming to cut the buildings’ carbon footprint by half. The real estate sector, [...]
LCBI präsentiert erste paneuropäische Methode zur Messung der CO2-Bilanz von Gebäude
LCBI präsentiert erste paneuropäische Methode zur Messung der CO2-Bilanz von Gebäude Die Low Carbon Building Initiative (LCBI) führt ihre europaweite Methode zur Messung der CO2-Bilanz von Gebäuden im Rahmen der Lebenszyklusanalyse und das Zertifizierungsschema in acht Ländern ein - Belgien, Deutschland, Frankreich, Italien, Luxemburg, den Niederlanden, Spanien und Großbritannien. [...]